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HebrewH7486Noun

רַֽעַמְסֵס

ra.me.ses

5Occurrences
H7486Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Rameses or Raamses, a place in Egypt

or רַעַמְסֵס; of Egyptian origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun" a city in lower Egypt built by Hebrew slaves; probably in Goshen

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

רַֽעַמְסֵס appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
2
Numbers
2
Genesis
1

Key Passages

Exodus 1:11BSB

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 12:37BSB

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

Genesis 47:11BSB

So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Numbers 33:3BSB

On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

Numbers 33:5BSB

The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.